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...remarkably disparate support -ranging from University of Chicago Economist Milton Friedman, a 1964 adviser to Barry Goldwater, to Yale's James Tobin, a former economic adviser to President Kennedy. Last week the idea got a big boost from inside the business community when Ford Motor Co. President Arjay Miller endorsed it as a key step toward "the elimination of poverty...
Basic Allowance. Speaking at a National Industrial Conference Board meeting in Manhattan, Miller assailed the "unsatisfactory progress" of the nation's existing welfare system by pointing out that there are some 30 million low-income Americans, of whom fewer than 8,000,000 receive public assistance. Present programs, said Miller, "are failing to reach many of those who need help most. Some of the poor now receive help from two or more programs, while others in desperate need receive nothing...
Like other supporting proposals for a negative income tax, Miller envisions using tax revenues to assure impoverished families of part of the amount by which their income falls below a certain level. Under one proposal, a family paying no income tax (for example, a family of four with income of less than $3,000) would receive payments equal to the exemptions and deductions it would be credited with if it were in a tax-paying bracket. As Miller sees it, a householder with no income whatsoever "would receive a basic allowance related to the size and composition of the family...
Appointed 18 months ago, with Engine Manufacturer J. Irwin Miller of Columbus, Ind., as chairman, the 15-member commission included five physicians. Two of the best known: San Francisco's Dr. Dwight L. Wilbur, president-elect of the American Medical Association,* and the Mayo Clinic's Dr. James C. Cain, the President's old friend and personal physician. In its proposals for wide and deep reforms the commission showed remarkable unanimity; there were only half a dozen footnotes of individual dissent in its 86 pages of review and recommendations...
Apart from a probing sketch of Dorsey, Simon provides little that is fresh on such familiar figures as Miller, Benny Goodman, and Duke Ellington, but he gives appropriate recognition to some of the brilliant though now largely forgotten ensembles of the period: the sizzling band headed by tiny, hunchbacked Drummer Chick Webb, featuring Ella Fitzgerald, which triumphed at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom in a 1937 battle of the bands with Goodman's group; the lush, colorfully textured Claude Thornhill band; the showmanlike Jimmie Lunceford unit, whose buoyant two-beat style influenced such latter-day bands as Billy...